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İf you're against the anti immigration rhetoric in the news...

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Welikebeingcosy · 26/09/2025 20:59

Will you join me in hanging a flag in solidarity of the people who make up our great diverse country?

I had an immigrant grandfather so I've just ordered a flag from that country to hang from my window, as well as one from the country my daughter was born in. Please note, this isn't an idea to vandalise anything or anywhere and hang flags from places other than our own homes. This also isn't an anti UK flag post, but rather, let's showcase all the backgrounds which make the UK what it is, including the UK flag.

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StrongLikeMamma · 01/11/2025 09:55

CatsMagic · 01/11/2025 09:52

This is what I can’t get my head around - quite often the same people who are so quick to dismiss the “white working class” will then defend terrorism /rioting /crime by minorities because “it’s understandable….. they are oppressed…..its the fault of the West…”

And it’s always aways people who are so far removed from the problems that the working class of the UK face it would be laughable if it wasn’t so bloody obtuse.

Literally no one is defending terrorism.

BluebellShmoobell · 01/11/2025 10:03

StrongLikeMamma · 01/11/2025 09:55

Literally no one is defending terrorism.

Yeah they'll do. Let's talk Axel Southport stabber, a terrorist! yet as a great woman poet at speakers corner back in the summer said ' while 3 little girls were being taken away in a hearse the media were saying hes not a terrorist hes neuro diverse!!" And yes they really were.

Petitchat · 01/11/2025 10:56

TheWiseAmethyst · 31/10/2025 22:43

How sad to have so much immature vitriol running through ones brain.

And obsessing about it at night in bed!

Overthewaytwice · 01/11/2025 11:04

No, my immigrant grandparents chose to move here and contributed to the UK for most of their adult lives. The English flag and Union Jack belongs to them as much as anyone else.

I'd much rather look for ways to show that our flag is for everyone than leave it to the racists. A mosque near me has taken to flying the English flag which I think makes he point beautifully.

Swiftasthewind · 01/11/2025 12:53

Overthewaytwice · 01/11/2025 11:04

No, my immigrant grandparents chose to move here and contributed to the UK for most of their adult lives. The English flag and Union Jack belongs to them as much as anyone else.

I'd much rather look for ways to show that our flag is for everyone than leave it to the racists. A mosque near me has taken to flying the English flag which I think makes he point beautifully.

Why can’t we just make a whole new flag and ban the St George’s cross? Sadly it will never shake the association with racism and colonialism so we should make a new and inclusive one. I also think we should change the name of the country to be more inclusive too. England is too outdated. I had something in mind like Diversia, I think it sounds bold and really gets across what we are trying to achieve as a culture.

AutumnTimePolice · 01/11/2025 13:14

Swiftasthewind · 31/10/2025 13:57

White working class British males are negatively portrayed in society for a reason. They are the ones constantly rioting and assaulting law enforcement over alleged immigrant crimes, they are the ones flying racist flags upside down on public property and also are the ones who are voting for Reform in their droves.

Frankly they need to sort themselves out.

Ahh yes they should try and be more like the virtue signalling middle class women waving their Palestine flags every weekend (to make themselves feel like white saviours) instead. Those pesky peasants in their council houses, grrr.

TheWiseAmethyst · 01/11/2025 13:28

Swiftasthewind · 01/11/2025 12:53

Why can’t we just make a whole new flag and ban the St George’s cross? Sadly it will never shake the association with racism and colonialism so we should make a new and inclusive one. I also think we should change the name of the country to be more inclusive too. England is too outdated. I had something in mind like Diversia, I think it sounds bold and really gets across what we are trying to achieve as a culture.

And the National Anthem changed to "Insania". Sung by Peter Andre.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 01/11/2025 13:40

TheWiseAmethyst · 01/11/2025 13:28

And the National Anthem changed to "Insania". Sung by Peter Andre.

Least the chorus is catchy!

StrongLikeMamma · 01/11/2025 15:27

Swiftasthewind · 01/11/2025 12:53

Why can’t we just make a whole new flag and ban the St George’s cross? Sadly it will never shake the association with racism and colonialism so we should make a new and inclusive one. I also think we should change the name of the country to be more inclusive too. England is too outdated. I had something in mind like Diversia, I think it sounds bold and really gets across what we are trying to achieve as a culture.

Nogammonshere Land

hellowhaaat3632 · 03/11/2025 09:01

Swiftasthewind · 01/11/2025 12:53

Why can’t we just make a whole new flag and ban the St George’s cross? Sadly it will never shake the association with racism and colonialism so we should make a new and inclusive one. I also think we should change the name of the country to be more inclusive too. England is too outdated. I had something in mind like Diversia, I think it sounds bold and really gets across what we are trying to achieve as a culture.

Lool the UK flag never stood for racism or colonialism, how ridiculous. All it symbolises is the country. A country with an amazing history, good and bad. I don't think erasing history is the way forward unless under the most dire emergency situations. This isn't one of them.

Deep yourself our of this Doom hole. Stop thinking Union Jack = racism. This is self-depreciation gone too far. Most immigrants don't think this. What is does symbolise is being proud of this country and the people who live in it. There I fixed it for you.

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